Ducks re-sign Hiller, 4 years 18 million

DirtyDave wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:That seems high...am I wrong?

Where's Giguere going then, because he can't stay there I wouldn't imagine. Who's making a play to acquire him - and...it must be now(ish). Probably don't want to wait until the off-season.

Montreal, or are they sticking with Halak? Because it's surely not Price.

Intriguing....

high yes.... but fairly comparable to Emery's 3 year 3.75 m contract after Sens went to the finals ... and Emery didn't really steal any games.

I think Elliott is more technically proficient than Emery was, although Emery gets the edge in athleticism. Not that Elliott's a slouch in that department, but Emery's reflexes were pretty good.

SpezDispenser wrote:I thought that would have happened a long, long time ago personally. No first rounder though, the Ducks need it badly. They need a lot of things, but the first is the big one. Toronto can get around the 1st. A 2nd + a piece would do it IMO. They have to, because otherwise no deal IMO, Anaheim simply will not deal that pick (again IMO).

I think they'd give up one of their first round picks, potentially Philadelphia's, to get rid of an albatross contract and bring in another top six forward who can score to the mix.

With Ryan, Getzlaf, Perry, Selanne, Koivu and Lupul, they're as deep up front as anyone in the West - on paper. Add a Hagman (20G) or a Ponikarovsky (19G) and you're looking at a pretty scary first round matchup for anyone in the West.

PKC wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:I thought that would have happened a long, long time ago personally. No first rounder though, the Ducks need it badly. They need a lot of things, but the first is the big one. Toronto can get around the 1st. A 2nd + a piece would do it IMO. They have to, because otherwise no deal IMO, Anaheim simply will not deal that pick (again IMO).

I think they'd give up one of their first round picks, potentially Philadelphia's, to get rid of an albatross contract and bring in another top six forward who can score to the mix.

With Ryan, Getzlaf, Perry, Selanne, Koivu and Lupul, they're as deep up front as anyone in the West - on paper. Add a Hagman (20G) or a Ponikarovsky (19G) and you're looking at a pretty scary first round matchup for anyone in the West.

What contract though? If you shed Lupul, you aren't gaining a T6F, you are replacing one. Perry and Getzlaf make big bucks, but deserve it (imo). Koivu perhaps? Same thing as Lupul imo.

There's Whitney, but they'd basically have to admit that they've given up on him, and I don't know if Murray would do that, considering he gave up a scorers in Kunitz, and a great prospect in Tangradi.

Point is...I just don't see a whole lot that should (could) be dumped. I still agree with you though in that they'd part with a first to unload a $6 million backup.

Diddle. I just realized that the salary you mentioned was Giguere.

DirtyDave wrote:
high yes.... but fairly comparable to Emery's 3 year 3.75 m contract after Sens went to the finals ... and Emery didn't really steal any games.

Emery stole tons of games for us on the way back from sucking in 06/07. I'm not his biggest fan, but we should remember just how ridiculously good he was when he took over as our goalie that year. At first the Sens were playing like crap (like we were in the 5 straight losses this year), then Emery came in and they started to play a little better, but still pretty crappy to be honest - but Emery stole some of those games for us. Then gradually they started to gel and them Emery just needed to be good, but man, he turned our season around.

Quite like Brodeur and especially Elliott is doing now.

According to Dreger, Hiller's extension may play a role in a "major move" by the Leafs today. Dreger's also suggesting that there might be more than one trade going down today.

i knew the ducks were gonna go with hiller but that's alot of money... wow they better get rid of giguere now. i also read the dreger comments about burke. i hope this triggers a whole lotta change!

Flo The Action wrote:i knew the ducks were gonna go with hiller but that's alot of money... wow they better get rid of giguere now. i also read the dreger comments about burke. i hope this triggers a whole lotta change!

Giguere is a Leaf if rumours are to be believed right now. Only about 45 minutes away from the Burke presser...interesting to see what happens.

I think the handwriting was on the wall the second Francois Allaire started working for the Leafs.

SeawaySensFan wrote:I think the handwriting was on the wall the second Francois Allaire started working for the Leafs.

Burke + Allaire + Hiller taking over = Giguere was destined to be a Leaf.

Burke is so transparent in trying to re-create the SC winning ducks.

Beauchemin, Phaneuf is hyped to be a future Pronger.

Giguere + Francois Allaire.

All he needs is Getzlaf, Perry, Penner or carbon copies ....

Next up ... Randy Carlyle as coach ?

Is Burke genius or is he just trying to re-create what worked in the past ?